Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

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Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna

Posted by: " Milan Mrj. " milan_mrj

 

M.: ''When one sees God does one see Him with these eyes?''

Master: " God cannot be seen with these physical eyes. In the course of spiritual

discipline one gets a 'love body', endowed with 'love eyes'. One sees God with

these 'love eyes. With this 'love body' the soul communes with God. " --

[Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, Advice to Householders. p.42/43.]

 

" In order to realize God one must assume one of these attitudes: Santa, dasya,

sakhya, vatsalya or madhur.

 

1. Santa, the serene attitude. The rishis of olden times had this attitude

towards God. They did not desire any worldly enjoyment. It is like the

single-minded devotion of wife to her husband. She knows that the husband is the

embodiment of besuty and love, a vertable Madan.

 

2. Dasya, the attitude of of a servant towards his master. Hanuman had this

attitude towards Rama. A wife feels this mood also. She serves her husband with

all her heart and soul. A mother also has a little of this attitude, as Yasoda

had towards Krishna.

 

3. Sakhya, the attitude of friendship. Friends say to another,'Come and sit near

me.' Sridama and friends sometimes fed Krishna with fruit, part of which they

had already eaten, and sometimes climed on His shoulders.

 

4. Vatsalya, the attitude of a mother towards her child. This was Yasoda's

attitude towards Krishna. The wife, too, has a little of this. She feeds her

husband with her very life-blood, as it were. The mother feels happy only when

the child has eaten to his heart's content. Yasoda would roam about with butter

in hand, in order to feed Krishna.

 

5. Madhur, the attitude of a woman towards her paramour. Radha had this attitude

towards Krishna. The wife also feels it for her husband. This attitude includes

all the other four. "

[Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, Advice to Householders. p.41/42.]

 

" Listen, my child, however spiritual a man may be, he must pay the tax for the

use of the body to the last farthing. But the difference between a great soul

and an ordinary man is this: The latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas

the former laughs. Death seems to hima mere play. " The Gospel of The Holy Mother

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